What happened to biodomes? Did the Pauly Shore movie ruin the concept?
We never got them working properly here on earth, which isn’t great news for a self sustainable moon or Mars colony.
Wasn’t that mostly due to mismanagement rather than any technological hurdle?
Kinda both. It was a useful experiment, but bacterial contamination doomed the thing from day one.
Also the trees got too weak with no wind or something
He made too much trouble in that bubble
A friend of mine has just broken the record of 100 days living under water. He is aiming for 120 days.
My mate Paul…
Because of its narcotic effect at high pressure, nitrogen shouldn’t be breathed by humans at depths below about 60 meters. So, at 200 meters, the breathing mix in the habitat will be 2 percent oxygen and 98 percent helium. But because of its very high thermal conductivity, “we need to heat helium to 31–32 °C to get a normal 21–22 °C internal temperature environment,” says Rick Goddard, director of engineering at Deep. “This creates a humid atmosphere, so porous materials become a breeding ground for mold”.
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What they mean is they will need to use the amount of energy that you would normally put into air to get it to 31° C, but the helium will only get to 21° C. At no point will the helium actually be 31° C.
So everyone is gonna sound like mice when they get crushed under the weight of the ocean?
Hmm… maybe not? The low density of helium at 1 atm is what causes the amplification of higher frequencies in the voicebox, but in a pressurized container the gas would be higher density so it might offset the effect… I think?
If the original SeaLab tests in the 60s were any indication, YES. Check out Scott Carpenter’s voice on this recording with LBJ. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3wkh6s
Love the horribly confused operator trying to fix problems with her equipment before putting the call through to the president.
Apparently when doing saturation diving like that you can’t even understand what the other person says, between the helium and the pressure the voice is too distorted to be intelligible.
You can communicate with a computer that transforms your voice to be intelligible but it is really not a pleasant conversation so you can stay there for weeks without having a conversation except for the bare minimum.
I love me some Mingus Dew
Read headline, music immediately started in my head, “if you’re looking for me…”
You better check under the sea!
Lol, that show is among the stupidest things I’ve ever loved.
I want to be an Adrienne Barbeaubot!
Sparks: … would you ever put your brain in a robot body?
Murphy: Why? I like my body. Ha, I love my body.
It’s not a toy. It makes real cupcakes… with a 40 watt bulb… and there’s icing packets. But the secret ingredient is love… Damn it.
Well hello, consumer, yes hello consumer bop bop bop bop be da bup bebop cola!
And I say to myself… I need exact change…
Dart in the neck!
Build them as connectable hexagons. Learn from the insects, they’ve had a half billion years to figure out what shit works and what shit don’t.
The hexagon is only stronger than a circle if you’re gridding it.
EDIT (stronger for the TOTAL material used)
Sure when in air. Not so much for underwater or really anywhere where they have to deal with a pressure differential, either positive or negative, where large flat sides are detrimental.
Did you mean “truncated icosahedron”? A hexagon is 2d.
Nah if you only build a 2D structure, you won’t have to worry about the water pressure because your structure will likely not be able to interact with 3D matter. It’s genius engineering IMHO.
Vanguard is now under Martian Law!
Man why did I have to go so far down to find this one? Lol
Eggers, sir
“I dub thee Sir Phobos, Knight of Mars, beater of ass.”
Bizzaro I love you bizzaro!
Mustache on or off?
Too bad
If you’re lookin for me,
You’d better check under the sea,
Cause that is where you’ll find me,
Underneath the seaaaaaa lab,
Underneath the water,
Seaaaaa lab…Chopper Dave!
I have an idea. Let’s stick all of the world’s billionaires into a submarine and see if lightning strikes twice.
Subnautica vibes.
Space is hard to get to, no gravity, and there’s radiation.
Underwater has high pressure, corrosion, and no natural lighting.
When you get an air leak in space, you find the hole and patch it. When you get a leak underwater, you don’t have to worry about it at all because it takes care of things in microseconds.
Just like with space you can build in redundancies though. You don’t have to be all Titan about it.
If your looking for me
You better check under the sea
Cause that is where you’ll find me
Underneath the
Sealab, Underneath the water
Sealab, At the bottom of the sea.
About 4 years late, but whatever.
The jerks in Pod Six made you late, didn’t they?
Once again, your stupidity has killed us!
Why do I apparently have the entire theme song still in my brain meats? I only thought the show was ok during its original Adult Swim run, and it wasn’t even a brain wormie theme. I apparently need to go back and watch it again to see what’s up.
I am probably a minority, but I think it’s the funniest of the early Adult Swim originals.
The feng shui episode was the best one.
Well I am going to put it to the test and see if it’s available anywhere to binge watch. I remember it being perfectly fine and enjoyable, but never one I was intentionally waiting to watch. Time to find out if it holds up or even gets better with age.
Watch our oceans die before your very eyes!
If anything goes slightly wrong I die instantly you say? I need to sign up NOW
Yeah, wouldn’t mind that for the next 4 years or so, possibly longer.
i did that in vashj’ir in wow in 2010
And in 2026, deep divers will be searching for datapads to find out what went wrong.
“So we found these slugs that produce magic stem cells…”
Add in “But harvesting it angered the psychic primordial shark that we worship as a god.” And you’ve got the rough plot for the water planet from Kotor 1.
Maybe the pact holds longer in those silos 😆
So basically Rapture
I was thinking more like PATHOS-II.
